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We performed a comparison between Mule ESB and OpenESB based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

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Pros
"The most valuable feature of Mule ESB is data transformation, i.e. our interacting with different systems and orchestrating for our business needs.""Mule ESB has a user-friendly design, and everything is in one place. The API and architecture are popular right now. Also, MuleSoft has a large and supportive online community.""The solution offers multiple deployment options.""Mule ESB is a very easy-to-use and user-friendly solution.""The most valuable feature for Mule is the number of connectors that are available.""Once it is started, we don't see any problems on a day to day basis.""The solution has a good graphical interface.""The most powerful feature is DataWeave, which is a powerful language where data can be transformed from one form into another."

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"One of the most valuable features is being able to implement business processes while keeping track of the design from BPMN to a BPEL Implementation.""OpenESB pushes the organization to clearly define service boundaries and interfaces. So it motives the business and the development teams to clearly define their business services and processes they want to implement. OpenESB supports fine and coarse-grain granularity for the services and supports top-down and bottom-up approaches for the services, processes definition, and composition.""The process-oriented solution allows you to define choreography and orchestration.""The core is very stable."

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Cons
"It would be much more beneficial if the solution included AI and business process management.""The price of Mule ESB could improve.""There are limitations with the subscription model that comes with the product.""Mule ESB is more into the latest REST APIs, not much into the SOAP web services. Developing is all about web services and not easy with Mule.""Limitation on external subscribers to listen to the messages on the bus.""Mule ESB isn't as secure as IBM. Financial companies go with IBM for that reason.""I would like to see support for BPM in the next release of this solution.""The initial setup is not easy."

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"Regarding its management, a web console being able to synchronize distributed instances would be great.""Cloud deployment is weak and needs to be improved.""The documentation of the product must be improved. It could be tricky to find the right documentation on a topic since the documentation is spread in many places. I advise the new joiner to contact the community to get entry points and additional documentation. Tutorial and Video must be present to take up the product.""The documentation needs to be better."

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Pricing and Cost Advice
  • "This is expensive. In my next project, we had to go to other vendor."
  • "Plan your licensing model (cloud or on-premises or hybrid) that will allow seamless integration with new partners."
  • "The various features and components for this solution are no longer free."
  • "The licensing is yearly, and there are additional fees for services."
  • "This product is cheaper than some offered by other vendors, although there is a problem because you have to pay for some third-party adapters."
  • "Most of the challenges that I had with this solution were for smaller customers. There is not a good licensing model or pricing model. It is more expensive than other solutions, and that's the downside of MuleSoft. I had to be creative to be able to sell it to the business, but we did. This is something they have to work on because for large companies, it's affordable, but for small and medium businesses, it's very hard to sell."
  • "This product is expensive, but it does offer value for money."
  • "I think the price is very high. If you use TIBCO BW, the license is for the CPU usage, then the IPS, and support. I also think the license for the product is a one-time expense."
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  • "There are two versions. The first is the community version, which is free and contains the last part of the feature, but if you want to get the Enterprise version, you'll have to pay €60,000 which covers support and two instances on production."
  • "The Community Edition is a full product you can use in production, it does not have limitations like other alternatives."
  • "The cost for the prediction instrument is high because it is charged per instances based on prediction, but the rest of the solution is free."
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    Questions from the Community
    Top Answer:I was previously part of the Oracle SOA/OSB development team. In my current capacity I architected solutions using MuleSoft Anypoint Platform on cloud / on-premises and hybrid modes and on PCE/RTF on… more »
    Top Answer:Our team ran a comparison of IBM’s Integration Bus vs. Mule ESB in order to determine what sort of ESB software was the best fit for our organization. Ultimately we decided to choose IBM Integration… more »
    Top Answer:The solution's drag-and-drop interface and data viewer helped us quite a lot.
    Top Answer:The process-oriented solution allows you to define choreography and orchestration.
    Top Answer:In comparison to other tools such as Oracle, the price is good for the service we receive. The cost for the prediction instrument is high because it is charged per instances based on prediction, but… more »
    Top Answer:Cloud deployment is weak and needs to be improved.
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    OpenESB
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    Overview
    For companies looking to modernize and unlock the value of existing on-premises systems and applications, an enterprise service bus (ESB) architecture serves as a critical foundation layer for SOA. When deployed as an ESB, the Mule runtime engine of Anypoint Platform combines the power of data and application integration across legacy systems and SaaS applications, with a seamless path to the other capabilities of Anypoint Platform and the full power of API-led connectivity.

    OpenESB is a Java-based open-source enterprise service bus. It can be used as a platform for both enterprise application integration and service-oriented architecture. OpenESB allows you to integrate legacy systems, external and internal partners and new development in your Business Process.

    Sample Customers
    Ube, PacificComp, University of Witwatersrand, Justice Systems, Camelot
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    Top Industries
    REVIEWERS
    Computer Software Company46%
    Financial Services Firm23%
    Healthcare Company8%
    Manufacturing Company8%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Computer Software Company17%
    Financial Services Firm15%
    Manufacturing Company9%
    Government7%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Computer Software Company15%
    Financial Services Firm12%
    Educational Organization10%
    Wellness & Fitness Company9%
    Company Size
    REVIEWERS
    Small Business37%
    Midsize Enterprise9%
    Large Enterprise54%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business17%
    Midsize Enterprise13%
    Large Enterprise70%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business22%
    Midsize Enterprise19%
    Large Enterprise59%
    Buyer's Guide
    ESB (Enterprise Service Bus)
    March 2024
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    Mule ESB is ranked 2nd in ESB (Enterprise Service Bus) with 45 reviews while OpenESB is ranked 13th in ESB (Enterprise Service Bus) with 4 reviews. Mule ESB is rated 8.0, while OpenESB is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Mule ESB writes "Plenty of documentation, flexible, and reliable". On the other hand, the top reviewer of OpenESB writes "Enables us to define the business process and integrate it with other software". Mule ESB is most compared with IBM Integration Bus, Oracle Service Bus, Red Hat Fuse, Oracle SOA Suite and webMethods Integration Server, whereas OpenESB is most compared with WSO2 Enterprise Integrator, Oracle Service Bus and Red Hat Fuse.

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